ClosedCaption
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We all come at this issue from different life experiences. There are bad cops, sure. Not defending that, you have basis for a complaint that the AG office needs to look into. Get a lawyer, and pursue the matter.Well the bad one's do seem more frequent these days from what I have observed over the last thirty years. One threaten my son and later when we went and talked to his sergeant, the guy that arrested sonstood out of my sight but where son could see him and gave son shitty looks while playing with his gun (bad charges which were dropped because the state claimed my insurance company wasn't valid to do business in the state of Iowa-it was total bs). The older sergeant upon hearing the whole situation agreed his officer was out of line and said he would take care of the other bogus charges so son wouldn't lose another day of work. Well the older guy didn't do what he said he would do so I went into their office again in an attempt to be reasonable. There was a younger sergeant there and they told me the one who said he would take care of it was on vacation. This younger sergeant became threatening with me. That did not go over very well when he told me that I didn't "know how things work when someone complained against one of his officers". I told him I knew exactly how politics worked and if he insisted I would be going right on up the chain of command to the AG's office if that was his desire. Anyhow we filed for a jury trial on the bogus tickets. They ended up dropping the charges before son had to lose a day of work. It would have been very easy to show how the officer had lied so that helped in that case.Bad cops are few and far between. We need to worry far more about bad citizens. Guns are one thing, should we ALL have to carry cameras to catch any bad guys, because we have lost our common sense and need a overlord camera to watch over all of us? sad but it looks that way. I use a car cam all the time, I don't trust anyone anymore. Cop are the least of my concerns.
Money fixes everything but if you don't have money to defend yourself...tough luck!